•Valentine Sweethearts: One of the sixteen girls featured in a photo were to be the 1963 Valentine Sweetheart at Moberly Junior College. Four from each class were nominated by the basketball squads and elected by the student body. Candidates include eleventh graders Glenna Gillan, Cheryl Haynes, Sonja Copeland and Janet Young; twelfth graders, Kathi Payne, Judy Alderson, Ann Bolls and Marian Wolkowitz; thirteenth graders Misses Vivia Jo Miller, Mary Lou Harmes, Jane K. Thornburg and Jo Ann Cleaver and seniors: Misses Pat Willman, Linda Fogerstrom, Paula Creed and Karen Mikes.

•John F. Carmody was elected president of the Randolph County Bar Association last night at a regular meeting at the Moberly Country Club. He succeeds Arthur O'Keefe. Elected vice presidents were Roswell P. Henderson and Channing Blaeuer. David Gladhart, circuit court reporter, was named to handle secretary-treasurer duties.

Thursday, February 6, 2003

•A Moberly Area Community College worker set up the stage in the Activities Center for the Circus Vegas show to be held there later today, featured in a photo on today's front page.

•The four-laning of Route 63 from Moberly to the Boone County line has been selected as Missouri's best Interstate/Four-Lane Divided Highway project for2002 by the Missouri/Kansas Chapter of the American Concrete Pavement Association.

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

•There is a lot to shout about in Randolph County! The Randolph County United Way goal of $300,000 has not only been met but also surpassed. Thanks to a lot of hard working volunteers that helped during the United Way campaign and all of those that gave generously, the 18 agencies and services that receive funding from The United Way will again receive that financial help. Harley Mattox is moving the line up to the amount of $302,703.33 that was announced at the United Way Appreciation Breakfast held Monday morning at the Municipal Auditorium. Featured in the photo were Cheri Galaske, Ralph Boots, Nancy Meals and President John Meystrik.

•Dorothy Greenfield and Ruth Case worked to count votes following the Super Tuesday presidential preference primary election. Randolph County Clerk Jim Sears said one precinct is pulled and ballots are counted manually. Then they are run through the machine to make sure votes were counted properly. After the count, Sears deemed the ballot machine, "perfect."